Francis Cottam Libri

296 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. Hamer Was A German Soldier And Until He Was Wounded And Put In A Labour Camp Had Never Doubted His Career.

Polish war exile Julia Smollen has escaped the horrors of a Nazi labour camp to forge a new life in California with her daughter, Tasha. Sent to the best school her mother can afford, growing up through the Cold War and the Space Race and coming into contact with the aspiring young Democrat, Jack Kennedy, Tasha is precocious, wilful and politically engaged. As intensely close as Tasha and her mother are, however, she remains unaware of the true identity of her father, the courageous German officer Martin Hamer, who was fatally wounded helping the then-pregnant Julia flee her occupied homeland. But Julia cannot keep the truth hidden from her daughter forever. A sinister figure from the past is about to emerge, with his own dark, vengeful agenda.

The long, hot summer of 1976 and American student Alice Bourne is heading for the south Devon coast to research an event that took place 32 years earlier: a catastrophe which claimed the lives of 1,500 American marines. No one seems to know exactly what happened that fateful day in April, 1944. to an alien land prepared to battle against Nazism, she determines that the true story of their sacrifice should finally be told. Herself a stranger in a strange land, Alice is only just becoming used to the English and their peculiar ways. targeted by a malevolent individual with his own dark reasons for preventing her from finding out what really happened at Slapton Sands. A poignant love story and a chilling tale of suspense, this beautifully-crafted novel gradually peels back the layers of past and present to reveal the harrowing truth about a tragic wartime event and its devastating repercussions.

Každý rok se miliony svobodných žen na celém světě nastěhují do nového bytu, ale jen málokterou napadne, že ani vlastní domov nemusí být ostrovem bezpečí. Mladá lékařka Juliet Devereauová, jejíž manželství se nečekaně ocitá v troskách, zoufale hledá přijatelné místo k bydlení v Brooklynu. Potřebuje získat zpět ztracenou životní rovnováhu a začít nový život. Nemůže uvěřit svému štěstí, když konečně najde krásný a prostorný byt s výhledem na Brooklynský most. Vše se zdá být naprosto ideální… až příliš ideální…. V průběhu několika týdnů ji záhadné události vedou k podezření, že v bytě není sama, a nemůže se zbavit pocitu, že ji někdo sleduje. Podivné zvuky, které ji v noci probouzí, silueta muže, stojící v jejím pokoji… Její obavy však nejsou dílem zjitřené fantazie, ohrožení je až příliš reálné a o to hrozivější. Juliet je proti své vůli zavlečena do děsivé hry na kočku a myš a neexistuje žádná jistota, zda z ní vyjde živá…

This title tells the story of a boy doomed by a prophecy and a father who will risk anything to save him. It is an epic confrontation between good and evil by the highly praised author of 'Dark Echo'.

The Fischer House was the scene of a vicious crime in the 1920s - a crime which still resonates as the century turns. At its heart was a beautiful, enigmatic woman called Pandora Gibson-Hoare, a photographer of genius whose only legacy is a handful of photographs and the clues to a mystery. Just weeks after four students cross the threshold of the derelict Fischer House, one of them has committed suicide and the other three are descending into madness. Nick Mason's sister is one of them. To save her, Nick must join ranks with Paul Seaton--the only person to have visited the house and survive. But Paul is a troubled man, haunted by otherworldly visions that even now threaten his sanity. Desperate, Nick forces Paul to go back into the past, to the secret journal of beautiful photographer Pandora Gibson-Hoare and a debauched gathering in the 1920s, and to the dark legacy of Klaus Fischer--master of the unspeakable crime and demonic proceedings that have haunted the mansion for decades. Because now, the Fischer House is beckoning, and some old friends have gathered to welcome Paul back. . . .